Organist Paul Murray presents the opening recital in this summer's free Tuesday evening series at Old West Church. His program will include works by J.S. Bach, Francois Couperin, Felix Mendelssohn, Charles-Marie Widor and McNeil Robinson.
A native of Dorchester, Paul Murray is the Director of Music and Organist at the Church of the Holy Family, the United Nations Parish, in New York City, a position he has held since December 2002. At Holy Family, he directs the parish’s professional choir and plays the church’s renowned five manual organ.
A member of the American Guild of Organists, Mr. Murray has served the Guild in a number of capacities, including Sub-Dean of the New York City Chapter and director of a Pipe Organ Encounter for advanced high school students, held in New York City in July 2010.
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Active as a teacher, composer, and performer, Mr. Murray has performed throughout the United States, including recent performances at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., the Cathedral of the Holy Cross, Boston, the Church of Saint Mary the Virgin and Trinity Church Wall Street in New York City, and he was a featured artist in a series celebrating the return of the organ at St. Paul’s Chapel in Lower Manhattan. This organ, steps from Ground Zero, sounds again, having been silenced on September 11, 2001.
In recognition of his contributions to organ performance and sacred music, Mr. Murray received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Boston Archdiocesan Choir School at Saint Paul’s Church, Cambridge and, in September 2009, he was invested as a Knight in the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem. His teachers include Leo Abbott, John Dunn, and McNeil Robinson. He presently studies with Stephen Tharp.
